Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-05-27

Saffron tea is the housewives remedy


Mrs. Wax is visiting her parents in
fLewiston and will remain couple of
months.
The canvas sign over the PRESS office
was painted by III. S. Young, Walla
Walla.
Th. Sandburg sent us last week bea-
yer tail from an animal which he caught
on Rice creek.
Our new spring goods are now open
for inspection. Call and examine them.
| 1850. Alexander & Freidenrich.
t|Benson's pack train arrived from Lew
fiston Saturday with 5000 pounds -four
and IL 900 pounds miscellaneous freight.
The horses shipped east few weeks
ago by DR.. Bibby and G. w. Morrison
were disposed of at Minneapolis at fair
prices.
Lift up thine eyes and look upon the
fields, for behold, their color is heal
thy green which foretelleth bountiful
harvest.
Call on Judge Parker for Land Busi-
ness, Mortgages, Deeds, Filings and gem
eral Conveyancing neatly, promptly, and
correctly done.
Ifyou have anything to sell, don't ad-
vertise it nor set it out in front OF your
store, but take it down in the cellar and
put tub on it.
Mrs. ]. II. Wilson has sold her mill
linery business to Mrs. G. L. Gordon,
and left on Saturday to visit her parents
at Oakland, Oregon.
- Thelbert Wall, of Clearwater, starts
for Minnesota via the Elk city trail early
next month with 400 head of horses for
sale in that market.
MI. Greenburg is shipping potatoes
from Lewiston to the prairie. He has
orders for nearly twenty tons from diff
erent parties here.
1t. Weeks is making a catalogue OF
the birds and flowers of the prairie. So
far he has pressed and classified n fiow-
ers and catalogued 5S birds.
A meeting will be held at Cotton
wood tomorrow Saturday at two
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graveyard on McKinlay's ranch. D..
Chief engineer Van Arsdel left for
Lewiston Tuesday, having been called
down by special dispatches. The sur
veys will be continued as heretofore.
John Clark returned from his winters
visit to Iowa last week, and started into
Florence Monday with pack train of
twenty animals via the Dead Horse
trail.
l>>Grangeyille is putting on metropolitan
airs. Its editors wear white plug hats,
and Capt. Hawley has engaged a young
lady to wait on the tables at the Jersey
House.
Ben Prichard was kicked in the face
by a fractions horse on the Centerville
ranch Tuesday. One side of the nose is
broken. but otherwise the result will not
be serious.
The Cottonwood school was to have
opened for six months term last Mon
day, but owing to some of the pupils
being down with the measles 1T has
been postponed.
Mai Shearer returned Sunday with
his mother, Mrs. +. A. Shearer who has
been visiting her old home in Pennsyl'
vania for the last eighteen months. Sht
will return to Salmon river shortly.
EpMrs. Vansise, with the assistance of {
? dog. succeeded in killing large lynx vi
at the sawmill in the foothills on Sunday
of last week. We have known big mer
with guns to run from the same sort o
animal.
Our big brother Col. Frank ]. Parke
will start early next month for England
He is commissioner from Washington
territory to the American Exposition
His address will be o, Strand Exchange
. London, w. c., England.
II. C. Brown, of Mt. Idaho, offers TO
sale, at the original cost price, large 10
of California and Oregon made clothin
2 consisting of mems, gents boys an
3 children's clothing. The entire stoc
was selected carefully with especia
Il reference to the wants of this commu
nifty, and will positively be sold
u original cost price for cash.
: The fourth annual commencmer
Q exercises of the Lewiston collegiai
institute commence next Wednesda
IL and will continue eight days. A d
Is ploma from this college is declared b
legislative enactment equivalent to
e territorial certificate, and its graduate
o can teach without undergoing the TO
If mality of an examination by count
" superintendents.
= With two more issues the FREE Pre-
n will close the first year of its existenc
i, and we will take it as a personal fav
y if those who don't like the paper or
editor will pay up their indebtedne
F. and have it stopped. We have aim
n to run this family journal on principl